Perhaps we need to paginate the reviews page in addition to the diff?

-David

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:03 PM, mary <ciaom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your reply. The slowness is:
> 1. page load takes several minutes (the more comments, the longer it
> takes)
> 2. typing a comment is very slow on reviews with many comments.
> 3. Scrolling on the review page is painful when many reviews
> Developers are speculating its due to a huge DOM and say that
> performance benchmarks seem relative to the document size, complexity,
> and browser type (Safari works best, then FireFox, then IE.)
>
> Can we change the paging size the ReviewBoard uses? That would help us
> most likely.
>
> Further details:
> yes, we're using memcache. 4G ram.
>
> We've been running Alpha2 the past couple weeks. But it seems Alpha1-4
> also have same issues.
>
>
> On Mar 6, 1:42 pm, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote:
>> It's important to find out what's causing the slowdown. What part is being
>> slow? The page itself, or the progressive diffs inside of it? Alpha 1
>> doesn't have progressive diffs so it will be slower than alpha 4 in this
>> regard.
>>
>> We have some large review requests like this at VMware too, and haven't seen
>> this slowdown.
>>
>> Are you using memcached on the server?
>>
>> How much ram do you have on the server?
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> --
>> Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com
>> Review Board -http://www.review-board.org
>> VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:53 AM, mary <ciaom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I was able to roll back to Alpha1 but ReviewBoard displayed the same
>> > problem... an unresponsive/seriously slow GUI for reviews with 150+
>> > comments. I also upgrade to Alpha4 with the same results.
>>
>> > Our company cannot use ReviewBoard with this serious performance
>> > handicap.
>>
>> > We've been very happy with ReviewBoard up until now. Is anyone looking
>> > into this perf issue?
>>
>> > We're going to have to move back to using <cringe> CodeStriker soon if
>> > this isn't addressed.
>>
>> > On Feb 24, 1:54 pm, mary <ciaom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Thanks for the information, I will try it on my test server (and yes,
>> > > I will keep in mind DB changes for future).
>>
>> > > I've also been having a hard time reproducing the issues that many are
>> > > reporting but I will continue to try and gather information. The
>> > > problems are being reported using both IE7 and Firefox 3 (both from
>> > > Windows and Linux). Everyone is reporting that using Firefox is
>> > > definitely better than IE7 though, but still very slow. I have
>> > > reported one bug #906 which I thought was the full issue, but others
>> > > are reporting the slowness even on reviews with a small diff and very
>> > > few total reviews.
>> >http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/issues/detail?id=906
>>
>> > > It's been reported numerous times that when users open up the review
>> > > comment pop up box and start to type their comments, the characters
>> > > typed take forever to show up in the comment field GUI. This is new
>> > > for us, no one reported this prior to recent alpha upgrades (I think
>> > > limited to alpha2, although i'm not certain of this.)
>>
>> > > On Feb 24, 1:39 pm, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > > In theory, you should be able to just install the  1.0alpha1 eggs of
>> > both
>> > > > Review Board and Djblets. This is completely untested and unsupported,
>> > > > though. Note that in the future, you'll have a harder time with this.
>> > There
>> > > > were no database schema changes between alpha 1 and 4 (to my
>> > knowledge), but
>> > > > there may be between 4 and some other version.
>>
>> > > > I'm going to be committing a fix for interdiffs within a day or two.
>> > You
>> > > > could wait until then and upgrade to the nightly (which will be safe
>> > enough
>> > > > for use, as not much has changed since alpha 4).
>>
>> > > > I don't know what this slow popup dialog issue is. I've heard one other
>> > > > person mention this but I can't reproduce it. The only way it'll get
>> > fixed,
>> > > > though, is if we can gather some debug info and figure out what's
>> > causing
>> > > > it. Can you tell me what versions of what browsers on what platforms
>> > they're
>> > > > using?
>>
>> > > > Christian
>>
>> > > > --
>> > > > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com
>> > > > Review Board -http://www.review-board.org
>> > > > VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com
>>
>> > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:31 PM, mary <ciaom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > > > Hi,
>>
>> > > > > Since upgrading to Alpha2 many of our users have been reporting
>> > > > > seriously slow response times sporadically on the review pages. This
>> > > > > is making the GUI nearly unusable for some users. One page
>> > > > > specifically is the popup Review comment box. This does not appear to
>> > > > > be network related and so I would like to roll back to Alpha 1 to see
>> > > > > if that fixes the issue.
>>
>> > > > > How do I roll back to a previous Alpha release? Can I specify an
>> > alpha
>> > > > > version on install and just reinstall? It's not clear how to do this
>> > > > > from the docs.
>>
>> > > > > Also, any estimate on when Alpha 5 will be ready? (We don't want to
>> > > > > upgrade to Alpha4 because of bug reported w/ viewing diffs of
>> > > > > revisions, which we already have problems with.)
>>
>> > > > > Thanks!
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